linux-toradex.git/kernel/gcov/Kconfig, branch tegra

gcov-kernel: Add ARM eABI support

2011-12-01T05:49:57+00:00

Based on work by George G. Davis .
See http://lwn.net/Articles/390419/

Change-Id: I8df700d20a154e179f8cf6cdfe4015efc5d384f2
Signed-off-by: Juha Tukkinen 
Reviewed-on: http://git-master/r/62998
Reviewed-by: Peter De Schrijver 
Reviewed-by: Scott Williams 
Reviewed-by: Yu-Huan Hsu 

Rebase-Id: R2607a46c8bd1e521abe44a57a5ccf7317333d6c9

gcov: disable CONSTRUCTORS for UML

2011-07-26T23:49:45+00:00

Selecting GCOV for UML causing configuration mismatch:

  warning: (GCOV_KERNEL) selects CONSTRUCTORS which has unmet direct dependencies (!UML)

Constructors are not needed for UML.

Signed-off-by: Vitaliy Ivanov 
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter 
Acked-by: Richard Weinberger 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

gcov: disable CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS when not needed by CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL

2011-06-16T03:04:01+00:00

CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS controls support for running constructor functions at
kernel init time.  According to commit b99b87f70c7785ab ("kernel:
constructor support"), gcov (CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL) needs this.  However,
CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS currently defaults to y, with no option to disable it,
and CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL depends on it.  Instead, default it to n and have
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL select it, so that the normal case of
CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL=n will result in CONFIG_CONSTRUCTORS=n.

Observed in the short list of =y values in a minimal kernel configuration.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sh: Enable CONFIG_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for sh

2011-02-15T07:47:17+00:00

This patch enables gcov kernel profiling over the whole kernel for sh.
Profiling of specific files individually already worked. A handful of
files have to be explicitly excluded from the profiling to avoid
breaking things, notably pmb.c.

Signed-off-by: Chris Smith 
Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy 
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt

microblaze: Enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL

2009-09-21T12:29:21+00:00

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek

powerpc: Enable GCOV

2009-08-20T00:29:28+00:00

Make it possible to enable GCOV code coverage measurement on powerpc.

Lightly tested on 64-bit, seems to work as expected.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

gcov: enable GCOV_PROFILE_ALL for x86_64

2009-06-18T20:03:58+00:00

Enable gcov profiling of the entire kernel on x86_64. Required changes
include disabling profiling for:

* arch/kernel/acpi/realmode and arch/kernel/boot/compressed:
  not linked to main kernel
* arch/vdso, arch/kernel/vsyscall_64 and arch/kernel/hpet:
  profiling causes segfaults during boot (incompatible context)

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Li Wei 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: WANG Cong 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

gcov: add gcov profiling infrastructure

2009-06-18T20:03:57+00:00

Enable the use of GCC's coverage testing tool gcov [1] with the Linux
kernel.  gcov may be useful for:

 * debugging (has this code been reached at all?)
 * test improvement (how do I change my test to cover these lines?)
 * minimizing kernel configurations (do I need this option if the
   associated code is never run?)

The profiling patch incorporates the following changes:

 * change kbuild to include profiling flags
 * provide functions needed by profiling code
 * present profiling data as files in debugfs

Note that on some architectures, enabling gcc's profiling option
"-fprofile-arcs" for the entire kernel may trigger compile/link/
run-time problems, some of which are caused by toolchain bugs and
others which require adjustment of architecture code.

For this reason profiling the entire kernel is initially restricted
to those architectures for which it is known to work without changes.
This restriction can be lifted once an architecture has been tested
and found compatible with gcc's profiling. Profiling of single files
or directories is still available on all platforms (see config help
text).

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Gcov.html

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Huang Ying 
Cc: Li Wei 
Cc: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: WANG Cong 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds